Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Tea Gift Giveaway!

I am so excited since this is my first giveaway! I just found out about the Bloggy Giveaway Carnival yesterday at bloggygiveaways.com (yes I do live under a rock, lol)...so even though it's a little late into the game I thought I would join in on the fun. :)

So I am giving away to one lucky recipient a beautiful little rose patterned china teacup filled with an assortment of yummy teas, a beautiful vintage rose postcard, an envelope filled with an assortment of cute little scrapbooking notions, a pretty little white and yellow vintage doily, and of course can't forget the dark chocolate....you gotta have chocolate. *smile*

To enter all you have to do is leave me a comment on this post telling me your favorite holiday or family tradition. Don't forget to include either a link back to your own blog or an email address so I can contact you if you win. The winner will be chosen at random on November 2, 2008. Good luck!

What a great giveaway. I love tea and collect tea cups. One our family traditions is all the girl on my moms side of the family have a girl night in early December where we exchange cookies, bake and have a girls sleepover. It is fun for young and old.

What a pretty tea cup! We have two traditions at our house. The first is one that I took from my childhood. We have Chinese takeout for dinner on Christmas Eve. My step~mother started this, when I lived in NYC. Chinese restaurants were usually the only ones open on Christmas Eve. We order the works. Everyone's favorite dishes. Everyone loves it! It is delicious, and the best part is all the free time it gives you to play Santa. Not having to cook is one less worry as you are assembling bikes and stuff. The other tradition is I let the kids open 2 of their presents on Christmas Eve. One is a fun one, and the other is a set of pajamas. That way everyone looks spiffy for Christmas morning pictures. Chinese food and pjs that's our Christmas Eve. lol

One of my most favorite Christmas traditions is stockings!! I love to open the little gifts and gadgets that fit in them (and I love putting them together for my husband and kids). I'm especially looking forward to this year because my mom took two stocking and added her tatting embellishments for my kids. They are just lovely, and she has put so much time into them. What a special gift!!

This is a wonderful little gift! One of my favorite traditions is when we go, the day after Thanksgiving, to cut down the Christmas tree for my parents home. We have done this since I was a kid (and it was my tree!), but it is so much fun to now go with them and my husband!

What a special giveaway! My favorite family tradition was standing in our church's live Nativity scene in the early seventies. I've been a wise man, a shepherd, and an angel. I was not allowed to wear my glasses, so when school chums said, "Did you see me?" I said no. They thought I was very devout!

Thanks for the great giveaway. One of the things I most love during the holidays besides being with family is that every year my family gets toghether with a few of my friends and their families that I have know for 25 years and have a fun get together. It is great that our children are also friends and it is a fun evening for all.

WHat a sweet sweet giveaway,my family lives 10 hrs away i only see them a few times a year so anytime i can get home for Christmas to feel their hugs, listen to their giggles and eat mums banana pudding then life is good.Ang

Wonderful Giveaway! My favorite holiday is my birthday. I love celebrating my life, since I almost lost it. Before Cancer I dreaded birthdays...getting older, yuck I thought. Now I celebrate and enjoy what each year has to bring!

What a sweet prize! I love it! Our holiday traditions all revolve around the food!! So I love all the baking and the desserts we only eat once a year :-) Thanks for the chance to win!give_me_a_latte at yahoo

We make X-mas cookies together. They are sugar cookies and take all day to cut and frost. By the end we have some pretty funny cookies (pink easter bunny, Jesus as a fetus with umbilical cord... it goes downhill from there....). I love it the smell, the eating of cookies we can't give to neighbors... yea.

My favorite family tradition is on me and my sister's birthday (we're twins). While we're sleeping, mom and dad will decorate the living room. That way, when we get up and walk in there, it's a surprise to us. It makes me feel that even though we never have a lot of money for our birthday, they still let us know!!

My favorite holiday tradition is driving around at night with my family and having a pretend contest and give "awards" to the holiday displays. We award the "Most Colorful" display, The "Most Beautiful" display, the "Funniest" display and so forth.

Afterwards we come home, have some hot chocolate, watch A Christmas Story and watch Santas progress on the NORAD site.

Thank you for this lovely giveaway. The tea cup reminds me of something my great-grandmother would serve tea in.

My favorite family tradition is making Lucia buns on Dec. 13th. They are little Swedish rolls and my kids love helping with the dough. It officially kicks off the Christmas season for us. Even though we plan and prepare for Christmas a few weeks before then, once those buns are baked everything hits high gear. They smell and taste so yummy!

What a sweet, sweet giveaway. That is a beautiful teacup. My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving and I started a tradition when my eldest was about 5. I bought a lovely inexpensive linen tablecloth and I use the same one each year for the Thanksgiving dinner.Some years , it's just us. Some tears we've invited people that we knew not so well but they had no family meal to attend. Other years relatives come but each year we do one thing the same.Each year, I give everyone in attendance, even the kids that can't write yet a fabric marker. We each pick a spot and write down (or the kids draw sometimes), one thing that we are most thankful for that year.The tablecloth is full of memories and lots of times our conversation leads to memories of dinners past. My eldest son will get the tablecloth when he marries and then he will pass on to his little brother.I'd love to have the teacup on the holiday table this year!

My favorite holiday tradition is buying my daughter one Christmas ornament each year (she is old enough to pick them out herself now) Then, when she moves out and starts her own family one day, she will have a set of beautiful ornaments and all the memories that go with them!

I love the teacup set, I would love to share it with my mom who collects them.

Thank you for the generous giveaway!foxsquirrelrabbit(at)gmail(dot)com

What a truly Gorgeous giveaway.My favorite holiday is Christmas.I love the looks of excitement on my childrens faces on Christmas morning.To me that is the best part.Thank you so much for offering this wonderful giveaway.I would LOVE to win !!

I love Christmas, but more importantly my favorite family tradition... On Christmas eve, before we celebrate Christmas and open gifts we have a big birthday party for all our December birthdays, we a have a lot! This means no Christmas decorations, just cake, birthday presents with birthday wrapping paper and fun! I think it is a great idea so our relatives who have birthdays in December don't feel left out or shafted!

One of my favorite holiday traditions is going through Jotham's Journey, or one of the other 2 in the series. They are amazing advent stories, to be read aloud to your children, and have really blessed our family each year. :)

My favorite Holiday is Halloween because of the grandkids. Going shopping for a costume seeing how excited they are days before halloween. Going to church festivals and school functions kids having fun and ofcourse CANDY lol thanks for a great giveaway..hugs kat

That is a LOVELY set you're giving away! My favorite family tradition is one handed down from my husband's family. On Christmas Eve we set the table with our best plates, each one covered by a large hanky or bandana. Then after the kids go to bed, we put their gifts under the hanky. In the morning, we take turns unveiling our gifts.

What an incredible lovely giveaway!! My favourite holiday is Christmas, as it seems it is the only time that the whole family can come together (we're scattered across the country)! I would love to be entered if I'm eligible (I'm from Canada), thank you!natasha_sacopaso[at]hotmail[dot]com

My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. I get to spend a lot of time with my family as all the females go shopping together the day after and we have a great time. Thanks for the giveaway. semtaylor(at)yahoo(dot)com

My favorite holiday tradition is the day we color all the easter eggs. I have so much fun watching the kids color and dip and dye and come up with different designs. I love how the art progresses every year. I LOVE how Daddy always has to make the coolest egg. LOL

My favorite family tradition is to go out for dinner for a family member's birthday. Got one coming up on Tues. My 7th child will turn 6 and we'll go out to dinner to celebrate. Gotta celebrate something that day, cuz the election might be disappointing! :)Kathybigfamily8 (at) yahoo (dot) com

My favorite holiday has always been Thanksgiving. I used to get up in the morning and watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade while she cooked. The smells were so good. I love fall, all the vibrant colors. The two just go together.gugel98@gmail.com

My favorite holiday is Easter. I'm Russian Orthodox, so we always have a long church service that's so beautiful I could cry, followed by an all-night feast. What could be better?

I also love Thanksgiving. My favorite Thanksgiving memory is from the time we were living in a hotel room with no kitchen. No place in town was open, so we ate cold pizza for breakfast and I spent the day doing puzzles in the lobby. It was absolutely perfect, and I felt grateful for three days after.